Poetry

Rutting Season

Rutting Season is essentially three chapbooks filled out with a conversation by the poets. The shop talk ...

By Bert Almon

Penned

Anyone fond of animals will want to read Penned, a remarkably wide-ranging collection of poems about zoos. ...

By Bert Almon

Witness and Resist

Marilyn Lerch's second book is equally committed to public issues (she has been a political activist for left-wing ...

By Bert Almon

Unisex Love Poems

Angela Szczepaniak's whimsical extravaganza Unisex Poems is published in the Punchy Poetry series from DC ...

By Bert Almon

The Pangborn Defence

Norm Sibum's work constantly suggests ancient Roman precedents: Tacitus, Sallustius, Propertius, Catullus, and ...

By Bert Almon

Paper Oranges

Carolyn Souaid also confronts a bleak world, but she feels the times are out of joint for metaphysical reasons, ...

By Bert Almon

feria:a poempark

Oana Avasilichioaei's ambitious work puts a new spin on the ancient tradition of the topographical poem. Her ...

By Bert Almon

The Debaucher

Jason Camlot's The Debaucher is filled with Montreal atmosphere: streets, schools, and, inevitably, Moe ...

By Bert Almon

36 Cornelian Avenue

Christopher Wiseman, one of Canada's finest poets, has published nine previous collections. Wiseman has always ...

By Bert Almon

Radius of Light

Joshua Auerbach's excellent book has a miscellaneous quality that is not uncommon in first collections. It ...

By Bert Almon

Dismantled Secrets

Maxianne Berger is proficient in a number of forms: the haiku, the pantoum, the sonnet, and Anglo-Saxon ...

By Bert Almon

Sympathy for the Couriers

Peter Richardson's ABC of Bellywork was reviewed in mRb 13. His new book is even better. Richardson ...

By Bert Almon